Thought Provoking

Thought Provoking

People and places; politics, power and beliefs – the stories behind our travels that make us think about the world.

Wherever we go, we try to dig beneath the surface of a destination and find the stories that lurk there. Stories that tell the tale of how power, politics and beliefs have profoundly influenced peoples’ lives.

In Córdoba, we learnt about an enlightened Islamic Caliphate in the darkness of the middle ages. In Jerusalem, we saw the impact religion and empire had on churches, synagogues and mosques. In Cape Town, we found townships still struggling to recover from the government policies of 20 years ago. And in Namibia, we witnessed the challenge of helping both wildlife and the rural poor.

Travel forces you to confront the world. It’s not always easy. Often, the realities of someone else’s existence make us question our own, but in doing so it has taught us lessons for our own lives.

The Moorish sites in Córdoba tell the story of the only Islamic Caliphate to rule from western Europe; one that yearned for scientific advancement and spread knowledge across backward Christian empires.